Poultry-house.



PATENTED JULY 24, 1906.

E. H. OAKMAN. POULTRY HOUSE.

APPLIUATION FILED JAN; 9. 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. A

ERWlN HARRIS OAKMAN, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

POULTRY-HOUSE.

' To all whom it may concern.-

others skilled in the art to which it apperthe house.

tains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in oultry-houses, the object of theinvention oein to provide a portable structure which will ouse a largenumber of fowls in' comparatively small s ace, which will be clean andsanitary, whic can be opened to expose the interior to the rays of thesun, and which is at all times thoroughly ventilated, and yet can bemade perfectly tight to protect the poultry from the weather.

A further object is to provide a structure of this character in whichthe droppings from the fowls will fall through a perforated or falsebottom ontothe ground, from which they can be easily removed and Wherethey are entirely out of contact with the fowls in the house;

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction and combinations and arrangenmts ofparts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out inthe claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective viewillustrating my improve ments, and Figs. 2 and 3 are views'in sectionthereof. I

1 represents my improved poultry-house, which. is preferably constructedof sheet metal; but I do not confine myself to such material. The roof 2is made with an overhanging portion 3 all around to direct away thewater from the windows or ventilatoropenings 4 and doorway 5, and theroof is made with a large central opening suitably boxed, as shown at 6,to support inclined doors'7, one overlapping the other when closed andboth made with flanged ends to overlap the boxing 6 and make a tightroof when the doors are closed, yet when they are opened they allow afree circulation of'air and admit the suns rays to the interior of Thewindows or ventilator-openings 4 are preferably covered by awire-netting, and

the doorway 5 as well as the windows 4 are Specification of LettersPatent.

Application filed January 9,1906. Serial No. 295,303.

Patented. July 24, 1906.

provided with hinged doors or shutters 9 to close the openings asoccasion ma require.

In a horizontal plane below the ottom' of doorway 5 a false bottom orfloor 10 of wirenetting is located, and a frame of roosting rods orpoles 11 are located above this floor 10, and as it is not necessary toprovide suflicient space between the rods to permit the fowls to fly upbetween them, as is the case with similar houses on the market, a muchlarger number of rods may be located in the house than heretofore.Droppings from the fowls will fall through the floor 10 onto the ground,and the back wall of the house is made with a hinged section 13v toenable the keeper to readily clean out the drop ings from the groundbeneath the floor, an this construction keeps the fowls separated fromthedroppings, which is a great improvement in the art.

l' entilatoreopenings 14 are provided in the walls of the house topermit a free circulation house, and hence a larger number of fowls canbe accommodated in the same sizev of of air, and a step 15 is hinged tothe house and can be swun up out of the way when it is desired to pa'c0r fold the same into its smallest compass. v I

A portable house of this character is of great advantage, as it enablesthose who rent property to move the poultry-house with them from placeto place. The house constructed in the sanitary manner. above explainedkeeps the poultry free from lice and vermin, as its thoroughventilation; cleanliness, and capability of interior exposure to thesuns rays all combined produce this much-sought result.

Slight changes might bemade in the general form and arrangement of theparts described without departing from my invenproximating the bottom ofthe doorway and i an open-work floor under said roosting-rods and abovethe bottom of the house.

2. A poultry-house having a .doorway in its wall above its bottom, anopen-work floor IIO below the doorway, roosting-rods over the work floorunder said roosting-rods and a floor so that the droppings will fallthrough the floor onto the ground, and a movable section permittingaccess to the ground be low the floor. i

A. poultry-house having screened vent-ilating-openings, a screen-top,means for olosing said top, a screen-floor in the house above the bottomthereof, and roosts disposedbetween the screen-floor and the screen-top.

4-. A poultry-house having screened openings therein, and a doorwaylocated above the bottom of the house, roosting-rods in the house aboutthe same plane as the bottom of the doorway, shutters or doors for thescreened openings and doorway, an openhinged door in the wall of thehouse below the open-work floor.

5. A poultry-house having an open top, a closure for said opening, adoor in one wall of the house, an open-work ceiling under the open topof the house, an open-Work floor,

and roosting-rods between saidopen-work ceiling and open-work floor.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

ERWIN HARRIS OAKMAN. Witnesses:

LESLIE M. DAVIES, J. H. LATHAM.

